Shotgunning

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Shotgunning is a means of consuming a canned beverage, especially beer, very quickly by a particular technique involving punching a hole in the side of the can.

Procedures

A college student punching a hole in a can with a knife.

To shotgun a beverage, a small hole is punched in the side of the can with a sharp object (usually a key, bottle opener, pen, knife, other sharp instrument, or possibly teeth or a thumb with enough experience), usually near the bottom while the can is upside down. By tilting the can carefully, the puncture should go through the interior air pocket, though most of the time a small amount will leak through the hole. The drinker then places his or her mouth over the hole while rotating the can straight up. When the can's tab is pulled, gravity and pressure change reulting from the pulled tab cause the can's interior to quickly drain through the hole into the drinker's mouth.

Strawpedo/Snorkeling

The method described above does not work with a glass bottle; one solution is to place a drinking straw in the bottle and bend it over the rim so that one end is running along the outside of the bottle. This way, the drinker can seal his or her mouth against the rim of the bottle and have an inflow of air allowing quick delivery. This is popularly called a "strawpedo" (a portmanteau of straw and torpedo). Strawpedoing a bottle of wine is often stated as the ultimate strawpedo test; with drinkers often having to train on smaller strawpedos before being able to handle the full wine bottle.

Media

The method of shotgunning a beer is demonstrated by John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga in the 1985 film The Sure Thing. Film critic James Lipton once appeared on Late Night With Conan O'Brien to "discuss" the film, but was instead told that the staff really just wanted him to shotgun a beer on camera, a request that Lipton gladly fulfilled.^[1]

See also

• Binge drinking
• Drinking culture
• Funneling

References

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